WAR OVER WORDS
Kory Stamper wrote an interesting piece in The New York Times titled “America’s Uncivil War Over Words.” “Americans can’t agree on much these days. They’ve obviously fallout over politics. They can’t even agree on...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
OTRA FIGURACION
Evoke without mimetic representation. Transcend the abstract / figuration binary. Employ expression and reject decoration. These three principals summarize the Otra Figuración movement (or another figuration). This was a group of four artists, operating...
BRICE MARDEN
There is transparency to some of the works of Brice Marden. Marden is an artist who utilized calligraphy for their inspiration. In Marden’s Cold Mountain series of paintings, there is a distinct sense of...
THE DESIGN SKETCHBOOK
At the site titled The Design Sketchbook, the author has provided Tip 172. And it it titled “How to draw 3D volumes. It’s all about seeing things in transparency.” The Design Sketchbook looks like...
THE TRAJECTORY OF ART
The entire trajectory of modernism, it turns out, is nothing more than revealing what cannot be seen. “One of the greatest innovations in twentieth-century drawings involves the degree to which they make visible things...
THE WHOLE SPACE
Can you think about space without thinking about form? That is to ask, can space be defined without enclosure and boundaries? Barnett Newman, an important abstract expressionist artist working in the mid 50’s, gave...
RAPHAEL’S PANTHEON
Raphael, the great Renaissance artist, made a famous drawing of the Pantheon. The drawing is most notable for it’s inaccuracy. “…when Raphael drew the interior of the Pantheon, he didn’t produce “the reality one...
PAPER TRANSPARENCY
What if you draw on transparent medium? Decades ago, I used to make drawings on plexiglass. The drawing at the top of this page is an example. I used a Rapidograph ink pen, and...
DRAWING NOT DRAWING
There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing. Pencil. Paper. Hand. Brain. If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally,...
ANALOGUE DRAWING
So what do we mean by analogue drawing? These pages use this term frequently. What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality. Physical gesture. Bodily act. Drawing must provide and maintain a direct,...
FORM COMBINE
Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing...
POST-DIGITAL DRAWING
In Metropolis Magazine, Sam Jacob wrote a piece titled Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing. The concept of the article is that, in the beginning, architects drew. Then the juggernaut of the machine...
THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.” Kurt Gödel. Wang, Hao. From Mathematics to Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. p. 95
INFORMED OR INVENTIVE
Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive. INFORMED Informed drawing documents what you know. For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING. A survey drawing is informed drawing: you use...
DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW
Peter Eisenman: “…to allow the subject to have a vision of space that can no longer be put together in the normalizing, classicizing or traditional construct of vision.” “A possible first step in conceptualizing...
HOUSE NOT HOUSE
Would our art be advanced if we eliminated nouns from our design vocabulary? Bachelard advises us that if we want to find the essence of something, we should look to the adjectives. He writes...
SURVEY DRAWING
The act of seeing is one of creation. When we see a building, we need to open ourselves to as wide a bandwith as possible. Belardi, in his “No Day Without a Line” lecture...
SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION
Is there a difference between perception and imagination? That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...
NEW MEASUREMENT GROUP
Artists have been pushing back against ideological cultural imperatives since forever. An interesting example is three Chinese artists who called themselves the New Measurement Group. In an attempt to push back against cultural ideological...
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